United States Seventh Circuit

In a suit under the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act claiming that a school district denied plaintiff a free, appropriate public education, entry of a preliminary injunction in response to plaintiff's motion for enforcement of the statute's "stay-put" provision is reversed and remanded where it addressed matters beyond the stay-put provision and did not apply the correct standards when it did address the stay-put provision.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/08/2007
• Decided 09/17/2007
• Published 09/17/2007

Judges

• RIPPLE, Circuit Judge., Before RIPPLE, MANION and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Judith Winston, Dept. of Educ., Washington, DC Lisa Wilson Edwards Dept. of Justice, Civil Rights Div., Washington, DC, for U.S. Dept of Educ., Amicus Curiae., Erin M. Maus, Baker & McKenzie, Chicago, IL, for Parent Advocates & Attorneys Inc., Nat. Disability Rights Newtwork, Center for Law & Educ., Equip for Equality, TASH, Nat. Down Syndrome Congress, and Nat. Down Syndrome Soc., Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles F. Stone (argued), Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellees., Anne W. Lokken (argued), Franczek Sullivan, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellants.